God’s Own Country has launched a new campaign – the ‘GOD Trees’ and it might do a lot of good for endangered species. Growing Our Dying (GOD) Trees campaign has been planned by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) where they plan to plant and protect a hundred of endangered and threatened trees in the […]
Air Pollution is Affecting Our Chief Pollinators
Geetha G Thimmegowda, a researcher with the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, first noticed a few years back, that the number of Giant Asian honey bees were gradually decreasing in urban areas of the city. Immediately, the scientist in her wanted to find out more. She began traveling to different locations of Bangalore […]
Growing A Forest For Odisha’s Elephants
There was once a time, not very long ago when there were over 2,000 elephants in Odisha and the entire landscape from the coast of Mahanadi to the Satkosia Tiger Reserve and the Mahanadi Elephant Reserve was a single uninterrupted habitat for the elephants to roam. As times changed, villages, agriculture, urban developments, and infrastructure […]
Not a Good Time to be an Herbivore
About one in four species of herbivore or 25.5% of the planet’s plant-eaters are at risk of extinction according to a new study by the International Union of Conservation of Nature. The study was published this week in the journal Science Advances. The study author Trisha Atwood of Utah State University added that by comparison […]
Arunachal Pradesh Bird Conservation Film earns Paris Film Festival nomination
Bugun Liocichla is a multi-coloured bird discovered by physicists-cum-naturalist Ramana Athreya on a field trip to Arunachal Pradesh in 1995. The bird was officially recognized as a new species in 2006, given the scientific name Liocichla bugunorum, where Liocichla is the genus name and bugunorum after the Bugun tribe in whose community forests the species […]
Hangul Sighted in Naranag, Kashmir
Hangul or Kashmir Stag is one of the rarest deer in the world found only in Kashmir, India. Recently a herd of around 6 to 8 deer were seen in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district, an encouraging sign that the deer are present in the area. “A group of Hangul numbering about 6 to 8 has […]
Righty or Lefty? Elephants pick their Sides Early in Life
A baby elephant’s trunk is its biggest toy. As it twists and tumbles taking care of the protrusion coming out of its face and slowly learning its importance, the elephant also must decide one thing. Which side does it prefer more? Indeed, just like people are left or right-handed, elephants too learn to rely on […]
Rare Yellow Turtle Rescued in Odisha
A rare yellow-coloured turtle was rescued by the villagers of Sujanpur in Balasore district of Odisha on July 19. It was handed over to the forest department officials who were equally surprised to see the reptile. The turtle’s video and photo were soon trending on the web. B Acharya, Wildlife Warden says, “This is a […]
What Causes a Sea Turtle to be a Female or a Male?
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Studying Human-Animal Interaction During the Lockdown ‘Anthropause’
From the moment the lockdown began in India in March 2020, social media was abuzz with animal sightings across the country in urban areas. From the civet seen in Kerala to the leopards visiting colonies in Chandigarh and flamingoes in Mumbai, it seemed the lack of people on roads made animals bolder to venture beyond […]
A Gharial travels 1100 km from Nepal to India
The river Gandak in India is called Narayani in Nepal, but ask one Ghariyal, and the trans-boundary differences just merge into one long river path which it took to travel for more than 1000 kilometres from Nepal to India. According to the Wildlife Trust of India, biologist Subrat Behera working on the Gharial Recovery Project […]